{"id":959,"date":"2016-10-16T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/middlesbrough\/?p=959"},"modified":"2016-10-16T17:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:33:36","slug":"meru-garden-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/middlesbrough\/2016\/10\/16\/meru-garden-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Meru Women’s Garden Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Margaret Clark Advocacy APD & SI Middlesbrough#<\/span>soroptimists<\/span><\/span><\/a> are proud to be supporting @Childdotorg & Great Big Supper Club #<\/span>TGBSCLUB<\/span><\/span><\/a>Meru Garden Project\u00a0https:\/\/t.co\/ZuA6ODdE3S<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the next three years Soroptimist Clubs are supporting the Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project (MWGP),\u00a0a collaboration with Child.org<\/a>, that will educate, empower and enable women and girls in Meru County, Kenya.<\/p>\n

The project provides sustainable gardening techniques and tools, enabling women to become mentors and pioneers of agricultural sustainability within the community. It will also educate girls on their rights, empowering them to stand up to damaging cultural practices like female genital mutilation (FGM).<\/p>\n

By providing economic opportunities to women and girls, MWGP will achieve long term change by strengthening entire communities; improving the lives and opportunities for children and generations to come.<\/p>\n

Meru District is in Tigania East with a population of 136,000. 90% live in rural areas with HIV\/AIDs prevalent in the region.<\/p>\n

Meru Women\u2019s Garden Project will support some of the poorest women-led households in Kenya, and is entirely focussed on providing opportunities to women and girls who may never otherwise be given the chance to earn an income, and gives them status within their community. It fully embraces the three key areas at the heart of our Programme Focus Goals \u2013 Educate, Empower and Enable. Improved food production and education will support women and girls to transform their lives and those of others through a process of cascade learning and mentoring thereby reducing poverty, improving health and increasing employment.<\/p>\n

The following data gives a clear indication of the need for this project:<\/p>\n